Israel Finkelscherer

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Israel Finkelscherer ( June 20, 1866 in Brody , Ukraine - October 6, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German rabbi in Munich .

Life

Israel Finkelscherer was the son of the teacher Chaim Finkelscherer and his wife Sara nee. Deligdish. He studied from 1887 to 1893 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau . In 1893/94 he studied at the University of Jena and received his doctorate there . The title of his dissertation was Moses Maimuni's position on superstition and mysticism . From 1890 to 1898 Finkelscherer helped out as a teacher at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. On July 1, 1898, he was employed by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Munich as a rabbinical deputy and religion teacher at the humanistic grammar schools in Munich, at the municipal secondary school for girls and at the adult education center.

In 1902, Israel Finkelscherer married Bella Lewy (1875-1943) from Berlin, a daughter of his teacher Israel Lewy (1841-1917). The two sons Herbert (1903–1942) and Bruno (1906–1943), who also became rabbis, came from this marriage.

Israel and Bella Finkel Scherer was on 25 June 1942 from Munich in the Theresienstadt ghetto deported where they 1942 and 1943 died. Her two sons as well as Herbert's wife, Flora Finkelscherer geb. Mayer (1902–1942) were also murdered.

literature

  • Tobias Weger : Israel Finkelscherer, 1866 (Brody / Galizien) –1942 (Theresienstadt). In: Beth ha-Knesseth - meeting place. On the history of the Munich synagogues, their rabbis and cantors. Catalog for the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Munich (December 2, 1999– May 31, 2000). Buchendorfer Verlag , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-934036-09-0 , pp. 113-114.
  • Biographical Handbook of Rabbis, Part 2, Die Rabbiner im Deutschen Reich 1871-1945 , Vol. 1, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , p. 154.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Israel Finkelscherer entry in the memorial book - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi tyranny 1933–1945
  2. ↑ Bella Finkelscherer b. Lewy entry in the memorial book - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist tyranny 1933–1945
  3. ^ Herbert Lewy entry in the memorial book - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi tyranny 1933–1945
  4. ^ Bruno Lewy entry in the memorial book - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist tyranny 1933–1945
  5. ↑ Flora Finkelscherer b. Mayer entry in the memorial book - Victims of the persecution of Jews under the National Socialist tyranny 1933–1945
personal data
SURNAME Finkelscherer, Israel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Brody , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1942
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto